John,
The Maasai people in south-west Kenya have created a miracle.
With the support of over 200 spiritual, political, and community Elders and leaders across 2 million hectares, they have made it possible to create the longest wildlife corridor in East Africa.
Every season, the needs of the elephants and wildlife to travel great distances freely for food and water is threatened by fencing and human development. If they are to exist and flourish, we must urgently return this precious land to the great herds, protected by the people who have lived there for generations and understand it best – the iconic Maasai themselves, guardians of this vanishing ecosystem.
The Maasai have made a miracle possible. Now, we can make it happen.
Every 50 dollars helps take down a fence and support another acre of protected land – join the effort to save the great herds before it’s too late.
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Traditional land conservation funding kicks Indigenous people off their homeland and turns land management over to high-end tourism, development, and land appropriation. This leads to “conservation refugees” filling shanty towns on the margins of their own traditional lands.
The Maasai in Kenya have created a new model in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy, which has won the 2022 UNDP award for successful indigenous conservation and which allows the Maasai to stay on their lands and train their whole community in wildlife conservation. Their model is already succeeding -- it has helped the animals multiply over 50% from the year before, and it keeps Maasai families together in the place they have called home and have knowledgeably, sustainably cared for over generations.
But this Indigenous-run model is a threat to the traditional models of land management by governments, which means they are shut out of traditional conservation grants.
And that’s why Nashulai is turning to people from around the world who have the vision to see what a miracle this age-old way of tending the land is, for every living thing, in newly urgent ways.
Our action now could save the lives of the next generation of elephants, lions, monkeys, birds and hippos already on their way into this world. And allow them to be born into a new model of land conservation that showcases a symbiosis between humans and animals that the whole world needs; we co-exist!
Chip in now to help. 50 dollars today can take down a fence and help another acre of land flourish and thrive:
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We were part of the visionary community who supported the corridor’s creation, we’ve helped it survive funding crises before. But this is our chance to secure its future for the long haul, for the lifetime of those beautiful baby elephants about to be born.